AstroWeb: Document Preparation Tools

AASTeX Package for Manuscript Preparation

AASTeX is a LaTeX-based package that can be used to mark up manuscripts for American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals.

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AAS/AASTeX/

Aspects of publishing with TeX and LaTeX

http://stkwww.fys.ruu.nl:8000/posters/hogeveen/recommend/astdoc.html

Echelle Reduction Manual for IRAF Users (Lick Obs. Tech. Report #74)

The manual describes the general IRAF packages, tasks, and parameters necessary to calibrating, extracting, and viewing data taken with echelle spectrographs. It is intended as a beginner's guide to IRAF echelle data reduction. Many task and task parameters are explained in detail and an example reduction from start to finish is presented. Specific concerns and settings for the Hamilton Echelle Spectrograph are addressed, but these apply to echelle spectrographs in general. Optimal extractions and scattered light removal techniques are addressed.

http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/cwc/irafman/manual.html

Echelle Scattered Light Algorithm (HAMSCATT)

HAMSCATT is a FORTRAN 77 module that interoperates with IRAF via the IMFORT library. It is publicly available. The distributed is a compressed tar file that contains the HAMSCATT software described in Churchill and Allen (PASP, 107, 193).

http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/cwc/hamscatt/code.html

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

This is W3 Consortium's home page for HTML. Here you will find pointers to our specifications for HTML, guidelines on how to use HTML to the best effect, and pointers to related work at W3C.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

PSPLOT

PSPLOT is a Fortran-callable PostScript plotting library which can create 2-D publication-quality graphics. It supports the standard 35 PostScript fonts and color, and is distributed free of charge for non- commercial use.

http://www.nova.edu/ocean/psplot.html

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Instructions for Electronic Manuscript Submission

http://pasp.phys.uvic.ca/paspems.html

WIP

WIP is a simple to use command line user interface used to produce high quality graphical output. It is linked with the PGPLOT subroutine package providing easy interaction with those subroutines.

http://bima.astro.umd.edu/wip/

pgperl

pgperl is a version of the Perl 4.0 language which has been combined with the PGPLOT FORTRAN library, a very popular package for plotting astronomical data. (As a glance through any issue of ApJ or MNRAS will confirm.) The details of this involve some complicated C glue routines but are transparent to the user. perl is a real C-like language with full control structures, and is very fast and efficient. All the power of perl (and believe me that is a lot) is available to extract data to plot from multitudes of files in complicated free formats.

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/AAO/local/www/kgb/pgperl/